When it comes to Black music, a significant part of our heritage is neglected, some would say out of ignorance and willful disregard of our past. One such genre is “old-time” music that includes blues ...

<!–Richie Dotson puts the finishing touches on a guitar repair. Dotson first started repairing stringed instruments out of a need to fix his own banjo. –>If you’ve got a sick banjo, Richie Dotson has ...

He%27s released more than 30 albums since 1978 Fleck tours with just one banjo The Flecktones are on %22indefinite hiatus%22 LOS ANGELES — Banjo master Bela Fleck has released more than 30 albums ...

Steve Martin knows banjo playing and works hard to keep the tradition alive, establishing an annual award given to players who excel on the instrument. This year, the Steve Martin Banjo Prize ...

Multiple Grammy winner continues expanding instrument. No modern musician has done more to expand the scope of the banjo over the past 46 years than Béla Fleck. The 15-time Grammy winner, performing ...

Chicago banjo whiz Michael J. Miles has launched some strange, ambitious ventures through the years. He has penned a “Yellowbird Concerto” for banjo and orchestra, transformed music of blues pioneer ...

A 15-time Grammy Award winner, banjo master Béla Fleck excels in such a dizzying array of styles — from bluegrass, folk and jazz to classical, country and World Music — that it was fitting when he ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> Bob Altschuler began playing the banjo because the sound reminded him of “these little sparkle things like neurons firing in my brain.” Jane Rothfield studied the Suzuki method of ...

In each session, Kruger will reveal secrets of his playing and offer advanced musical concepts that you can apply to your banjo playing. Kruger is a master 5 string banjoist and highly accomplished ...

To Béla Fleck, the banjo isn’t just a musical instrument: it’s a navigational instrument, a divining rod that led the Manhattan-born musician through musical genres, little-known chapters of American ...